Add Custom TextField Component to Simulink Toolstrip

I am looking to create a custom Simulink toolstrip text input component. I see there is documentation regarding custom toolstrip components, but it seems that PushButton, DropDownButton, SplitButton, and EmptyControl are the only components available via the user API. In the Simulink Toolstrip under Simulation --> Simulate there is an input text field for simulation Stop Time (see image below). This makes me think there may be a way to create a custom text input field.

I dug into the program files a bit and found what seems to be a toolstrip configuration file (MATLAB\R2022b\toolbox\simulink\ui\sl_studio\sl_studio\defaultToolstripCacheVersion2.json). In the file, I see a section regarding Stop Time, and the value for key "ToolType" is "TextField" (see below), but the whole file structure is much different from what is in the custom Toolstrip config .json in the documentation.

"content": {
    "ActionId": "stopTimeSimAction",
    "ContextType": "SimulinkStudioContext",
    "IconOverride": "",
    "JSONString": "",
    "Label": "Stop Time",
    "Name": "TextfileStopTime",
    "ParentName": "",
    "PopupName": "",
    "ShowDescription": false,
    "TextOverride": "",
    "ToolType": "TextField"
},

If creating a TextField via user API isn't currently a feature, could It be added in a future version?

[Thom]

I have exaclty the same question. After a lot of struggle, I came to the same conclusion as Andrew.

And while we're at it: the text "Stop Time" seems to have type "label" it seems froms using slToolstripDeveloperMode('on') to peek at the title of the control. That is also missing in the API.

Answer 1

[Raghunathraju]

Hi Andrew,

Currently Custom Tab in Simulink Toolstrip is only supporting PushButton, DropDownButton, SplitButton, and EmptyControl. It is not planned to add Textfield component yet, however you can except to see the TextField component in future .

[Jari]

The user API still does not show a TextField type, but it's been nearly two years since this staff answer. Can we still expect this in the near future or has the idea been shelved?